This
Zhamaqirk is a copy of the uncopyrighted
book called
« The Book of Hours », published by Ouzoonian
House, Evanston, Illinois, in 1964, and it is the work of the Archbishop
Tiran Nersoyan.
In this
HTML Book of Hours, I kept the original text, with the
following exceptions :
# 1 - Abp Tiran had taken the psalms from the Revised Standard Version,
with some personal rectifications. This
HTML Book of Hours uses,
for psalms or other canonical Scriptures, the
American Standard Version
as it is. (Psalms only, have « LORD » or « YHWH »,
insted of "Jehova".) For deuterocanonical (apocripha) canticles of the Old
Testament, the
HTML Book of Hours uses the
King James Apocripha
. Both the versions were taken from the
HTML Bible which means free versions, belonging to the
Public
Domain . For more explanations, see below.
# 2 - Abp Tiran used in his Zhamaqirk the titles of the items only in
English. The HTML Book of Hours keeps faithfully the English titles, but
is has also the Armenian ones, both in original and translitterated to Latin
alphabeth. To see their pronounciation (the Western one), please see the
Glossary ( page
VI ).
# 3 - Normal text is written in black. Rubrics are in
red italics. Propers are in black bold italics. Titles are
in black CAPITAL ITALICS. In
darkened green
are given the texts that are not in Abp Tiran's Zhamaqirk, but which
were added as possible proper, for those pieces that Abp Tiran had left without
resolution.Their rubrics are given here in
italic
darkened red.
The American Standard Version HTML Bible and the King
James Apocrypha, as well as « The Book of Hours » , published by Ouzoonian House, Evanston, Illinois, in
1964
, has been placed in the Public Domain, which means
there is no copyright (nor can there ever be one). You are welcome to make
copies and distribute this software freely.
This HTML Book of Hours has a practical purpose. First of all, you are
encouraged to
PRAY, using its text. You
may also download it on your computer, under the form
zhamaqirk.zip , to unzip it, and to use it like that or to print for
anyone's good use.
Restrictions
Because of the abuses, as author of this website, I have imposed some
restrictions.
1. You are forbidden to modify the formulas. E.g., if you have the text,
"
Remember also the saints and together with them, let us beseech the Lord
", you are forbidden to modify as, "
Remember also St Ignatius and
all the saints, and together with them...". But you
may
replace, e.g., "unto the ages of ages" by "forever and ever".
2. You are forbidden to use these Armenian Rite texts during the Eucharistic
Celebration of the Latin Rite, without asking the advice of a competent
authority in the domain. (Mostly, the Great Litany [ pages
22 and
87 ] is NOT compatible with the Prayer
of the Faithful of the Latin Rite !)